As in many other matters, Germany is, on this point, in a different position from other nations; Bismark had steady his "Kulturkampt" The Roman Catholic Church, (associated Mr. Eisler, a Jew, soon after the wer), had their hands in a political intrigue for separating the Catholic south and west from the Protestant north and east.
At this time Hitler began his unprecedented political career. The fear of Germany being dismembered, the inhuman pressure put on Germany by Versailles were the main reasons for his coup in Munich during the night of November 8/9, 1923, for the imprisoning of Hitler and some of his followers, and for the Germans to accept the National Socialist ideology and philosophy in an unprecedented swing.
It must therefore be presumed that Hitler is acting on this point with the consent of the great majority of the people when he proclaims: "to God what belongs to God, to the Reich, what belongs to the Reich." Hands off politics. That is all that the Germans are demanding from the churches. Hitler forbids the houses for worship and schools to be turned into places of political propaganda against him or the state.
May I be permitted to ask the President which religion is the one indispensable to Americans?. How many different churches or sects, giving the names to as many religions, are actually propagated in America? Must one be poor in spirit? Many let their own conscience be their guide instead of being led to God by intermediaries.
As far as 1 understand, every religion or church, American or otherwise, may exist and expound their faith unmolested in Germany as long as they keep entirely out of politics.
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